New York Times’s David Brooks and Harvard University’s Michael Sandel: Democracy’s Discontent

Twenty-six years after its original publication, Michael J. Sandel’s Democracy’s Discontent still offers an incisive critique of American society.

Join Michael J. Sandel, renowned political philosopher and Harvard University professor, and David Brooks, accomplished New York Times columnist and commentator, for an exploration of the new edition, Democracy’s Discontent, which addresses the perils democracy confronts today.

Now, a quarter century later, Sandel updates his classic work for an age when democracy’s discontent has hardened into a country divided against itself. In this new edition, he extends his account of America’s civic struggles from the 1990s to the present. He shows how Democrats and Republicans alike embraced a version of finance-driven globalization that created a society of winners and losers and fueled the toxic politics of our time.

In a stirring new epilogue, Sandel argues the necessity of reconfiguring the economy and empowering citizens.